Many low cost web hosts advertise “unlimited bandwidth”, “unlimited storage”, etc … Of course, it is not unlimited. If you read the terms of service, you will find some definitions or rules setting out “reasonable” use. For the typical website the average user or small business is going to set up – these are more than generous. Don’t imagine you are going to host a competitor website to FaceBook / Google / YouTube / ebay (pick your favorite major web player) on your “unlimited” account running WordPress or Joomla! or Drupal (or whatever CMS you like) – it’s just not going to happen. Heavy duty websites need heavy duty infrastructure, hardware, and software – a low cost, generic, off the shelf solution won’t cut it (but if you have to worry about competing with … Read entire article »